Saturday, August 27, 2016

What better way to start getting into TensorFlow than with a notebook technology like Jupyter, the successor to IPython Notebook? There are two little hurdles to achieve this:

Choice of OS. Trying to use Windows with TensorFlow is as painful as trying to use Windows with Spark. But even within Linux, it turns out you need a recent version. CentOS 7 works a lot better than CentOS 6 because it has a more recent glibc.

A step is missing from the TensorFlow installation page. From StackOverflow:conda install notebook ipykernel

Here then are the complete set of steps to achieve Hello World in Tensorflow on Jupyter via Anaconda: